The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1069 - Leftists Push White Guilt On Thanksgiving

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, over the Thanksgiving holiday, leftists invited us to shamefully

00:00:04.320 grovel and beg forgiveness for the alleged atrocities committed by our ancestors.

00:00:08.760 I will explain why I declined that invitation.

00:00:11.140 Also, Hispanic voters are moving to the right.

00:00:13.600 George Soros has a solution for that.

00:00:15.740 Plus, you've heard about a pandemic.

00:00:17.340 Now the media wants us to learn about a triple-demic is what they're calling it.

00:00:20.940 Protests break out against the communist regime in China, and a show about archaeology is

00:00:25.020 a big hit on Netflix, but the media warns that it's dangerous.

00:00:28.420 How can a show about archaeology be dangerous?

00:00:30.400 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:03:29.020 As we head into December, we're going to start hearing more about the war on Christmas.

00:03:33.920 But before the focus shifts in that direction, it's worth noticing the much more direct and

00:03:38.620 intense war being waged on the holiday that we just celebrated, which is Thanksgiving.

00:03:43.020 The war on Thanksgiving has been raging for years now, as the cultural powers that be attempt

00:03:48.540 to turn a time of gratitude and celebration into an occasion for guilt and recrimination.

00:03:55.620 Now, we know that these forces seek to destroy all traditions passed to us by our ancestors,

00:04:00.520 and this is the primary issue that they have with Christmas, too, with every holiday that

00:04:04.980 they themselves didn't invent, is that it's a tradition passed to us by our ancestors, and so

00:04:09.820 they hate it reflexively.

00:04:11.000 But Thanksgiving, like Columbus Day, is especially egregious in their eyes because it harkens back

00:04:16.780 to the European conquest of North America, which is an historical event that these days

00:04:22.200 is supposed to provoke nothing but grief and lamentation.

00:04:27.340 In fact, for years, the left has tried to literally rebrand Thanksgiving as un-Thanksgiving,

00:04:33.800 or as it's called in some quarters now, Thanksgiving is a national day of mourning in recognition of

00:04:40.980 course of alleged atrocities carried out against indigenous people by white settlers.

00:04:45.820 This was the message that the left tried to send again this past Thanksgiving, many taking

00:04:49.760 the opportunity to post on social media with messages like this.

00:04:53.180 This is from journalist Walter Brahman, who says,

00:04:56.200 While giving thanks and celebrating the holiday, remember, it is a national day of mourning for

00:05:01.200 Native Americans that marks generations of broken promises and oppression. It is important to

00:05:06.640 recognize that legacy as we grapple with a resurgent fascist movement, solidarity forever. And then he

00:05:12.600 continues, say it with me. The United States carried out a genocide against this continent's

00:05:17.660 indigenous people, and it served as a blueprint for future generations. A writer named Simon Moya Smith

00:05:24.040 agreed, posting, Today is the national day of mourning for indigenous peoples all across

00:05:28.960 this land. We also call it un-Thanksgiving. On this day, we as natives celebrate our resiliency

00:05:35.440 and that we are still here. The U.S. tried to kill every indigenous man, woman, and child,

00:05:41.260 but we are still here. And there were also acts of protests around the country, like in Chicago,

00:05:46.880 as New York Post reports, quote, For the second time in under two months,

00:05:49.900 a statue dedicated to former President Abraham Lincoln was defaced in Chicago on Thanksgiving.

00:05:55.940 A statue of a young Abraham Lincoln in Sen Park in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood was found covered

00:06:02.360 in splotches of red paint, along with the words colonizer and land back. According to the Chicago

00:06:09.840 Tribune, the statue also had Dakota 38 written on it in reference to the Dakota Sioux members who

00:06:15.420 Lincoln ordered to be executed following the Dakota War of 1862. Well, it's a good thing that 1.00

00:06:22.020 there aren't any injustices happening in the world today right now, which frees us up to

00:06:26.820 protest injustices from 150 years ago. That is quite a nice luxury, I must say.

00:06:34.700 But there may be even something to be thankful for. I don't know. Just not on Thanksgiving,

00:06:39.120 as the holiday is simply too complicated now. It's complicated. This indeed has become the media

00:06:45.320 favorite term to describe Thanksgiving, with many outlets bringing in Native American activists

00:06:50.520 to talk about the emotional complexities surrounding what we all once thought was a

00:06:56.480 simple and wholesome holiday. But it's not anymore, because it's just complicated. Watch.

00:07:02.960 Thanksgiving originally celebrated a harvest feast shared by Native Americans and English

00:07:09.200 colonists. But as Fox 43's Harry Lee explains, the holiday can bring out different emotions for

00:07:14.800 indigenous people. For many Americans, Thanksgiving means gathering with family to eat a large meal

00:07:21.260 together. For Native Americans, the holiday isn't so simple. A lot of people in the indigenous

00:07:26.520 communities do want to look at this at the time of morning because they see, you know, just what we

00:07:29.840 have lost. After Europeans colonized North America, many Native communities were decimated by

00:07:35.720 disease, famine, and displacement. Frank Littlebear of the Plains Cree Nation explains, though,

00:07:40.580 that the many tribes and families of indigenous communities now celebrate Thanksgiving in different

00:07:45.580 ways. He points out fall was always a season of thanks. It actually started in October, a time of,

00:07:51.440 you know, receiving the harvest of like the three sisters, the corn, bean, squash,

00:07:55.840 deer, things like that, and really preparing for winter. So it was actually a time of celebration.

00:08:01.260 As for the elementary school depictions of the first Thanksgiving, which often depict Puritan English

00:08:06.320 and Wampanoag tribe members inaccurately dressed in Western Plains attire.

00:08:11.340 I think, yeah, there's certain things that they could probably do better.

00:08:14.780 Littlebear says it's still important to build a connection to Native American culture from a young

00:08:19.360 age. It's a building process. It's not going to happen overnight.

00:08:23.720 Build a connection to Native American culture. That's what Thanksgiving is about. Meanwhile, 0.99

00:08:27.620 the ACLU tried the repetition technique, posting on Thanksgiving morning in all caps,

00:08:31.880 you are on Native land. You are on Native land. You are on Native land. You are on Native land. You

00:08:38.240 are on Native land. You are on Native land. You are on Native land. You are on Native land.

00:08:43.240 Unfortunately, they only repeated the phrase 10 times. If they could have squeezed in that 11th time,

00:08:48.220 I may have been convinced, but they only got to 10. Now, there are a few points here that I think

00:08:54.360 are worth making. First, of course, the story about Thanksgiving that we tell our children or used to

00:09:00.260 tell them is simplified, okay? That's because young children are only capable of understanding

00:09:06.900 simple concepts. You give them the simple version first, and then over time, you build on it,

00:09:13.700 adding layers of complexity. And in fact, the left agrees with this, which is why they haven't

00:09:18.620 actually set out to give children a more complex or nuanced understanding of the European settlement

00:09:24.280 of the new world. Instead, they've replaced one simplified story with a different but even more

00:09:31.440 simplified story. It's just been simplified in the other direction. So the popular and simplified myth

00:09:38.300 now, told not just to children but hammered into everybody's head, is a story of evil, barbaric white 0.99

00:09:44.320 people who came here and just immediately carried out a genocide against peaceful Indians who never did a 0.98

00:09:50.340 single thing to deserve or provoke any of the violence visited upon them. This is the story we're supposed

00:09:56.500 to believe now. It is the new founding myth of America. You know, every nation has its founding myth,

00:10:04.600 right? Usually the myths are designed to instill pride and patriotism and gratitude. And yes, they're not

00:10:13.160 always 100% accurate. But people in other cultures and in other countries, they don't spend time

00:10:19.040 debunking. Well, that's not exactly how it happened. They wouldn't have been dressed like that.

00:10:24.940 That's not the point of the story. Okay? Getting the wardrobe details right isn't the point.

00:10:32.080 A lot of times the point is, again, to instill pride, patriotism, and gratitude.

00:10:37.200 But our new founding myth is designed instead to instill resentment and guilt and shame.

00:10:44.220 The modern Western world is the only civilization in history that I'm aware of that lies to itself

00:10:51.280 about its own history and founding in order to make itself seem worse.

00:10:57.940 Second, as I've pointed out many times in the past and will continue to point out,

00:11:02.220 the claim that we stole land from Native Americans, from some group called, quote,

00:11:07.800 Native Americans or, quote, indigenous people, is incoherent. There never was

00:11:12.280 any homogenous group of natives occupying this land before the settlers got here. Okay? It's not like

00:11:18.700 the whole country was occupied by this one group that we would call Native Americans. 1.00

00:11:26.920 There were rather disparate and warring tribes that waged wars of conquest and extermination against

00:11:34.720 each other and had been doing so for centuries before we arrived. The ACLU says that we're on native

00:11:40.360 land. But who's the land exactly? I mean, which natives? The ones who were most recently occupying 0.83

00:11:47.080 the land when white people showed up? Or the ones who those natives stole it from? Or the natives who 0.90

00:11:53.760 the natives it was stolen from stole it from? Or the natives who had it before that, etc.? I mean,

00:11:59.240 you have to be more specific. But you can't be more specific because there is no coherent chain of

00:12:04.000 custody for this allegedly stolen land. There was, for thousands of years rather,

00:12:08.320 only the law of conquest, which is a law that all people lived by and died by.

00:12:14.740 That doesn't make it right. It doesn't make it wrong. It just makes it what it is, what it was.

00:12:19.600 It simply means that it doesn't make any sense to try and identify special victims of conquest

00:12:25.400 because every conquered people were conquerors before they were conquered.

00:12:30.400 So there are winners and losers in such a system. This is a distinction. You want to talk about the

00:12:37.480 left wants nuance? Well, here it is. In a world governed by the law of conquest, which is how the

00:12:43.280 whole world was governed for thousands of years, there are winners and losers, but it is much harder

00:12:49.820 to identify villains and victims. You know, by the law of the land at the time, it's hard to make

00:12:57.320 villains out of Indian tribes that, for example, massacred settlements. That's just how it worked. 0.99

00:13:04.300 And they were on, the settlements were on land that those Indian tribes wanted or felt that they

00:13:09.520 had a right to. But it's also hard to make villains out of the settlers who responded in kind

00:13:15.500 to that sort of aggression. Again, it's the way the world worked. We can only be grateful that we do not

00:13:21.540 live in times nearly as harsh or unforgiving as that. And we can and should be grateful to our

00:13:27.620 ancestors who gave us the comfortable and luxurious lives that we lead. Modern people love to feast at 1.00

00:13:36.580 the banquet of Western civilization while still whining about the people who provided the banquet

00:13:42.440 and judging them for doing what they had to do in order to provide it. But you notice that none of

00:13:49.700 these people are leaving the banquet. They're still shoving their fat, ungrateful faces. 0.99

00:13:57.700 Third, and this is the point that I most wanted to drive home, and it is this. I am a Native American, 0.96

00:14:06.400 okay? I am a Native American, and so are most of you in the audience. And I don't mean that in the

00:14:12.580 Elizabeth Warren sense. I'm not claiming one one thousandth Comanche blood or whatever.

00:14:16.800 I'm saying that I was born here, I am a citizen, and therefore I am a Native. I am a Native to this

00:14:25.620 country, and I am an American, therefore I am a Native American. Now, that's a title that we really

00:14:33.260 need to start using correctly. Any legal citizen born in this country is Native to it, and thus is a 0.99

00:14:41.680 Native American. We have no trouble recognizing this when it comes to state citizenship. Now,

00:14:47.100 if I told you that I was a Native Marylander because I was born in Maryland, nobody would

00:14:52.780 have any problem with that. I am Native to Maryland because I was born there. And yet, somehow, we have

00:14:58.680 this idea that I can be Native to Maryland, again, something no one would dispute, a Native

00:15:05.560 Marylander, and yet not Native to the country that Maryland is a part of. So I can say I'm a Native

00:15:11.860 Marylander, but I cannot say I'm a Native American. Because that title, Native to the country, is

00:15:19.380 reserved for a very specific group of people, to a special victim group, because they were here

00:15:26.640 originally, we're told. But they weren't. Because if you trace it back far enough, every person who has

00:15:34.620 ever lived on this side of the world is originally from the other side of it. Nobody is Native here in 1.00

00:15:43.320 the absolute sense. We are all descended from foreign nomads, all of us. And yet, my ancestors came here,

00:15:53.780 just as the ancestors of those we call indigenous came here. And my ancestors fought for this land

00:16:01.140 and conquered it, just as the so-called indigenous people had done before them. And then I was born, 1.00

00:16:09.000 and this is my country. It is my home. It is my Native land. And I'm proud of that.

00:16:17.120 And I apologize to no one for it. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:16:31.480 You know, on Friday, we released the first two episodes of the brand new biblical series by Dr. Jordan B.

00:16:36.100 Peterson. This series is called Exodus, and in it, Jordan Peterson sits down with other scholars to read the book

00:16:41.140 of Exodus and discuss what it means and why it remains significant thousands of years after it was written.

00:16:45.480 Scholars at the table include Dennis Prager, Jonathan Pegot, and many more as well. There will be new

00:16:52.000 episodes releasing weekly, and trust me, you don't want to miss this series. So check out the trailer.

00:16:57.040 Here it is.

00:16:57.480 So the Hebrews created history as we know it.

00:17:03.600 You don't get away with anything. And so you might think you can bend the fabric of reality and

00:17:08.240 that you can treat people instrumentally and that you can bow to the tyrant and violate your conscience

00:17:12.620 without cost. You will pay the piper. It's going to call you out of that slavery into freedom,

00:17:17.920 even if that pulls you into the desert.

00:17:23.300 And we're going to see that there's something else going on here that is far more cosmic and

00:17:28.480 deeper than what you can imagine.

00:17:30.400 The highest ethical spirit to which we're beholden is presented precisely as that spirit that

00:17:39.220 allies itself with the cause of freedom against tyranny.

00:17:43.560 Yes, exactly. I want villains to get punished.

00:17:46.200 But do you want the villains to learn before they have to pay the ultimate price?

00:17:49.620 That's such a Christian question.

00:17:50.920 You got to be a member to watch. So head to dailywire.com slash subscribe to become a member

00:18:03.220 and watch Exodus today. All right. I want to begin with a story that

00:18:07.960 is not one of the headlines that grabbed everybody's attention over the weekend. In fact,

00:18:13.060 this story has grabbed comparatively few people's attention, but it's important enough that I'm

00:18:19.020 going to mention it here. So this is the story from Fox. It says a liberal group linked to

00:18:24.680 billionaire George Soros has been cleared by the FCC to purchase Spanish language radio stations

00:18:30.640 throughout the country, rekindling concerns that a radical political agenda will influence

00:18:36.020 information provided to Hispanic voters. Miami's iconic Spanish language conservative talk radio

00:18:41.740 station Radio Mambi is one of the 18 stations the Soros-backed Latino media group will purchase from

00:18:48.000 Televisa Univision for a reported $60 million. Radio Mambi, which is historically linked to the

00:18:54.160 Cuban exile community and offers an anti-communism view, will be controlled by liberals once the deal

00:18:59.380 is finalized. Latino media network, which is partially financed by an investment group affiliated

00:19:04.200 with Soros. The Soros fund management is controlled by Jess Morales, a former Hillary for America

00:19:11.700 and AFL-CIO employee and former Obama White House staffer as well. The FCC rejected a petition to block

00:19:19.340 the proposed sale. And so that's the news. So why is this important? Well, I think that should be

00:19:28.140 obvious. George Soros, who is truly one of the worst human beings to ever live on the planet, at least in

00:19:35.580 the past, I don't know, two centuries. I put him in the top five, top 10 at least. And he has moved from

00:19:42.920 financing the destruction of our cities with woke DAs who don't enforce the law to now buying Spanish 1.00

00:19:49.200 language radio stations and flipping them over to make them leftist. I mean, he's still buying up the

00:19:53.960 DAs as well. It's not like he has to choose between the two. That's the advantage of being a billionaire.

00:19:57.420 But he's doing both and a lot more as well. The idea here is to counter the move to the right that

00:20:06.400 we're seeing in the Hispanic community. Because the left for so long has taken the Hispanic vote for

00:20:12.140 granted. That's why they've, in large part, why they've opened up the borders to begin with, shipped

00:20:17.020 as many Hispanic people here as they can. That's what the great replacement is all about. 1.00

00:20:22.900 The great replacement that Chuck Schumer admitted to a week ago. But they've hit a snag because they've

00:20:29.600 found that Latinos are voting Republican more and more with each election. Now, the Democrats still

00:20:36.640 get the majority of the Latino vote, but it's trending in the wrong direction for them. Because they lost

00:20:42.960 a portion of their usual share in the 2018 midterms, then even more in the 2020 election, and then even

00:20:50.060 more in the 2022 midterms. Again, things are trending in the wrong direction. So what do they do about it?

00:20:55.440 Well, you cue George Soros, who's a literal comic book villain. He even looks like the bad guy in a

00:21:02.800 cartoon or something. And his plan is to buy the votes back by taking over the information pipelines.

00:21:09.640 That's what's happening here. And as I've established now, in case it wasn't clear,

00:21:17.240 he is an evil son of a bitch. I mean, the world would be a better place when he dies. And I know 1.00

00:21:22.500 we're not supposed to say that sort of thing. Well, no, no, no. The left can say that. But on the right,

00:21:26.680 you're not allowed to ever point that out or say that. But it's just a fact. I mean, the guy's like

00:21:30.580 92 years old. He's done immense damage to the world. And when he is no longer in the world,

00:21:36.380 it will be better for everyone. And all of that is true. But at the same time,

00:21:43.960 we can also recognize, I think, that this is the left playing chess while we on the right play

00:21:50.240 checkers, right? Which is a common problem. They go on offense always. So they notice that they're

00:21:58.960 losing the Spanish vote. So instead of just whining about it on Twitter, they go out and do this.

00:22:04.340 They try to reclaim the information pipelines. They go to war for it. Human beings have been

00:22:10.180 going to war for resources since time immemorial. Well, now the greatest resource is not something

00:22:16.660 you can dig out of the ground. It's information. And as a political resource, it's the number one

00:22:23.640 political resource. And the left is at war to control it. That's why they're so upset about

00:22:28.640 Elon Musk taking over Twitter. They see it as a significant defeat in this battle, right,

00:22:35.140 for to control the information, which it is. And this move by Soros, it's not going to be enough

00:22:40.440 to neutralize the effect of what Elon Musk has done. But it's a start anyway, and that's what

00:22:45.480 they're doing. And we need to get our heads in the game and realize that. All right. So you've heard

00:22:51.940 about a pandemic. Well, now say hello to a triple-demic. This is from Mother Jones.

00:22:58.660 Says, respiratory illnesses are sweeping the nation, overwhelming hospitals, causing kids to miss

00:23:02.880 school, and keeping adults home from work. The culprit, COVID, and respiratory, well, RSV is the

00:23:10.460 virus, and the flu. So that's all three of them. Dr. William Schaffner says, we're facing an onslaught

00:23:15.760 of three viruses, COVID, RSV, and influenza, all simultaneously. We're calling this a triple-demic

00:23:21.600 is the word they're using. I've also heard tri-demic used. I think I prefer tri-demic of the two. 0.98

00:23:28.820 And it's not a term made up by Mother Jones. This is what the media is running with.

00:23:32.180 And here's the thing. They are right that RSV is a scary virus in children. That's for sure.

00:23:39.320 We've had more than one child who ended up in the emergency room with RSV. I've had to sit by the

00:23:44.400 hospital bed more than once with a young child who's struggling to breathe. It is one of the

00:23:49.400 scariest things you can experience as a parent. As far as the flu goes, again, yes, that can be

00:23:54.160 extremely serious with kids. As I mentioned, we've had the flu go through our house this month.

00:24:01.560 And it's, you know, all the kids had nasty coughs for two weeks. My wife is pregnant with twins,

00:24:08.120 still hasn't completely gotten over it. But the point is that RSV and the flu have always been with

00:24:14.320 this. Or at least they've been known about for decades. I think RSV was first identified 70 or

00:24:20.060 80 years ago or so. And they've always been the far greater concern, especially for kids.

00:24:28.340 There was never any reason for parents to worry about COVID with their kids. There was never any

00:24:33.680 good reason for that. There was never any good data-backed reason for parents to be overly

00:24:38.360 worried or even worried at all, actually, about COVID and their kids. But flu and RSV were always

00:24:44.300 the real risks. And that's what some of us, many of us, have been saying for years now.

00:24:50.600 But we were shut down, castigated, ignored, silenced. And now we're getting all these panicky

00:24:57.380 stories about flu and RSV, also including COVID. Like they throw COVID into it just so that COVID

00:25:03.600 doesn't get its feelings hurt, I guess. But we're getting these stories as though the media

00:25:07.560 just found out that these viruses exist, even though they've always existed.

00:25:15.320 And we continue to live our lives in spite of them, right? They're out there. We know that.

00:25:22.500 But we live our lives because what the hell else are we supposed to do?

00:25:25.860 You take basic precautions. You wash your hands, that kind of thing. If you're sick,

00:25:31.660 if your child is sick, you stay home. Most people have always understood that you do that. We don't

00:25:38.160 need the CDC to tell us. We don't need any kind of official quarantine recommendation. Is it five

00:25:43.360 days? Is it 10 days? Is it two weeks? It's always been pretty obvious. If your kid's clearly sick,

00:25:48.880 has a fever, is coughing and all that, then you stay home if you can. But other than that,

00:25:53.900 you basically just live your life. What other option is there?

00:25:58.500 That's what we've been saying all along.

00:26:02.480 Like if we were not, COVID and RSV, especially again, when it comes to kids,

00:26:07.220 they've always been out there. We've always known about them.

00:26:11.640 And yet we continue to live our lives. Why then would we respond differently to COVID? And that's

00:26:17.840 a thing they could never explain. On CNN, they're dealing with this tridemic. And the senior

00:26:25.240 medical correspondent has some advice on how we can deal with this. Let's listen to that.

00:26:31.260 I know a lot of this has to do with the fact that people were taking such big mitigation steps over

00:26:35.640 the last several years. That's why we're seeing such a difference now. A big question people want

00:26:39.800 to know, though, is how they avoid getting sick as the flu cases are already this high and people are

00:26:45.060 gathering for the holidays. They're out and about much more than they have been in the last several

00:26:48.960 years. Right, Caitlin. So all of the advice that I'm going to give you, you have heard it before.

00:26:56.000 There is nothing new under the sun. It's very basic stuff. It's things like getting a flu shot. So

00:27:02.120 important. Washing your hands frequently. And if you want to, no one's advising you to, but if you want

00:27:07.600 to, certainly wearing a mask is going to help protect you against the flu, not to mention things like

00:27:12.980 RSV and COVID and other respiratory diseases. As you mentioned, flu hospitalizations at a high

00:27:19.740 right now for this point in the season, such an early flu season. If you look all the way to the

00:27:24.640 right, you can see a bar that represents the rate now, all the rates over the past 10 years,

00:27:29.520 way lower at this point in the season. If you want to, if you want to, you can wear a mask,

00:27:37.100 she says. And no one's advising it at this point. But if you want to, you can. At least for right now,

00:27:44.900 they're not advising you. This was always where this was going to head, is that once people stop

00:27:52.440 worrying about COVID and you're not able to, this is why they've moved on from COVID largely in the

00:27:58.440 media. It's got nothing to do with the numbers or anything like that. It's just because they

00:28:04.420 couldn't get the fear reaction out of people. Most people, the fear panic, the panic button

00:28:12.420 had been pressed too much and it was just spent and they couldn't get that reaction anymore out of

00:28:16.860 people. But they still want to keep us muzzled. So maybe you move on and say, well, wear the mask

00:28:24.860 now for the flu. Even though, again, no one ever suggested that prior to COVID. Masks existed,

00:28:37.260 medical masks existed, respiratory illnesses existed. And yet there was no push by anyone

00:28:44.420 to tell people to wear masks until COVID came along. All right, Tony Fauci officially retired,

00:28:52.840 that hasn't stopped him from doing the news circuit. He interviewed on Face the Nation over

00:28:56.700 the weekend, where among other things, he talked about the anti-China approach, as he puts it,

00:29:04.320 that the Trump administration had to the COVID virus. Fauci still has not forgiven Trump for being mean to

00:29:10.760 China when China unleashed a virus on the entire globe. And that's the thing that's most upsetting to 0.97

00:29:15.600 him. So here he is talking about that.

00:29:16.800 What happens is that if you look at the anti-China approach that clearly the Trump administration had

00:29:25.040 right from the very beginning and the accusatory nature, the Chinese are going to flinch back and 1.00

00:29:30.060 say, oh, I'm sorry, we're not going to talk to you about it, which is not correct.

00:29:34.100 But they're not talking to the Biden administration about it either.

00:29:36.720 Exactly. I think that horse is out of the barn and they're very suspicious

00:29:40.440 of anybody trying to accuse them. We need to have an open dialogue with their scientists

00:29:46.780 and our scientists, keep the politics out of it and let the scientists, because these are scientists

00:29:53.040 that we've known for decades.

00:29:55.940 Yes, we wouldn't want to accuse China. We shouldn't accuse them. They simply just 0.99

00:30:00.380 created the virus. They created COVID in their Wuhan lab, created it and unleashed it on the world. 0.99

00:30:08.180 But, and that's the only question that still exists here is how exactly it ended up getting

00:30:14.840 unleashed in the world and to what extent was it intentional? That's the only question that maybe

00:30:18.640 still is still a live question, but it will never be answered because the people that would be in

00:30:23.220 charge of answering that question have no interest. So they created the virus, unleashed it on the world

00:30:28.680 one way or another, but let's not point fingers. I mean, this is a courtesy that Fauci would extend to

00:30:35.740 anyone. I'm sure if you walked up to him on the street and punched him in his lying little elvish 1.00

00:30:41.280 face, I'm sure he would say, well, let's not, let's not point fingers. Let's not accuse. 0.98

00:30:46.980 Yes, this person punched me directly in the face and is 100% to blame for doing so.

00:30:51.280 But, but can we blame them for that? Even so? Meanwhile, there are, speaking of China, 0.93

00:30:58.340 the Daily Wire has this report. Chinese citizens are protesting the communist nation's strict COVID

00:31:02.860 policies with at least one demonstration turning violent. Protests intensified over the weekend in

00:31:07.840 major cities across China, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan. According to media reports,

00:31:12.860 a demonstration in Shanghai eventually devolved into chaos with police clashing of protesters and

00:31:17.320 deploying pepper spray. The protests emerged as a response to the zero COVID policies imposed by

00:31:22.940 the Chinese Communist Party government since the beginning of the pandemic.

00:31:26.980 pandemic. And now we're seeing, apparently, and you always have to say apparently, because you can

00:31:34.180 never be, you can never be sure with anything that we, that comes out of China, any information that

00:31:38.920 we get out of China. But apparently we're seeing these widespread protests, which by the way, if you

00:31:45.820 want to protest oppression or anything like that, this, this is what takes actual courage. To be a BLM

00:31:53.400 rioter in the United States, there's no courage there. But to protest as a Chinese citizen, to

00:31:59.120 protest the Chinese government, that takes courage. More courage than the White House has, by the way,

00:32:04.060 because the White House put out this statement. I listened to this statement from the White House

00:32:06.460 about the, the, what's happening in China. This is their statement. We've said that zero COVID is not a

00:32:15.000 policy that we are pursuing here in the United States. And as we've said, we think it's going to be

00:32:19.160 very difficult for the People's Republic of China to be able to contain this virus through their

00:32:23.040 zero COVID strategy. For us, we are focused on what works. And that means using the public health

00:32:27.940 tools like continuing to enhance vaccination rates, including boosters and making testing and

00:32:33.020 treatment easily available, accessible. We've long said everyone has the right to peacefully protest

00:32:37.660 here in the United States and around the world. This includes in the PRC. It will be hard to come up

00:32:43.680 with a weaker or more pathetic statement than that. These are protests against communist tyranny 0.98

00:32:53.280 being violently put down. And we'll never know the, even the extent of that, because again,

00:33:00.260 this is coming from China. And talk about controlling the, the pipelines of information,

00:33:05.260 the Chinese communist government has almost complete control over it.

00:33:08.020 So we'll never even know the full extent of it, but they're violently putting down these protests.

00:33:15.660 And the White House's response is not even criticizing that. It's not criticizing that. It's

00:33:20.780 just, it's just criticizing the efficacy of, of zero COVID policies.

00:33:25.400 Even though they all supported those kinds of policies themselves for two years. Great. All right.

00:33:32.960 You know, the story about the shooting at the gay club in Colorado Springs has, you may have noticed

00:33:37.660 this, has already disappeared, which is interesting. As soon as the shooter's non, quote unquote,

00:33:44.920 non-binary self-identity was revealed, the story just evaporated, like floated away in a puff of smoke.

00:33:51.840 At least that's what the media would prefer. That's, that's the vanishing Houdini act that the

00:33:58.720 media is trying to pull off, but we should not let them do that. Okay. I can say that I'm not,

00:34:03.660 I'm not done with the story, which is why I want to play this clip from CNN last week.

00:34:08.880 And this is a clip of a, of a man who identifies as a woman, a quote unquote trans woman who is a friend

00:34:16.340 of one of the victims. And I want you to hear how he deals with the fact that the shooter was,

00:34:24.320 is identifies as non-binary. This is pretty amazing. Listen to this.

00:34:28.480 Natalie, when we started the show, we just got, we got a little bit of news earlier that the

00:34:34.160 attorneys for the shooter, um, are now saying that the shooter is non-binary and the shooter,

00:34:42.400 the shooter, uh, would like to use the pronouns they, them, and this is for the court in all court

00:34:49.600 papers. And that's what, um, Anderson Aldrich's attorneys are saying. Do you have any thoughts

00:34:57.020 on that? Yeah. I think that's, um, complete ludicrous. Um, I believe they're just saying that

00:35:06.520 because they want to have, um, the easy way out on this. Um, that's really, really, um, offending,

00:35:16.980 especially being a transgender woman myself, that a male, which it was obvious with the mugshot,

00:35:23.720 that's a man, that's not a non-binary person because in no way, shape or form could they appear

00:35:30.900 as a woman the next day? Um, it's really offensive to even hear that, that they're playing that role. 1.00

00:35:37.360 Um, and if they're non-binary, why would you go after the club where you feel safe at? 0.99

00:35:42.140 Why would you do that to a community where you are welcomed in if you are non-binary?

00:35:48.460 Excellent question. Obviously all of this will have to be answered.

00:35:51.680 Wow. Okay. So, uh, this person has made the judgment call that the shooter is not really

00:36:00.780 non-binary because he doesn't, because he looks like a male. And, uh, and so, so, so he, 0.66

00:36:05.920 the person on CNN is making a, a judgment about this other person's self-identity by physically

00:36:13.220 assessing them. This is just, and this is why the story went away. Um,

00:36:21.680 I mean, for the obvious reason, right? That it's not, it's the, the, the media completely

00:36:26.580 embarrassed itself. Uh, it's, uh, you know, tried to use this event to defame people like myself and

00:36:34.100 lives, a tech doc, Tucker Carlson, and then it all blew up in their faces. And now that the person

00:36:38.860 has been revealed as a, as a, you know, someone who identifies as non-binary, it's not useful to them.

00:36:44.520 Um, and so that's why they're, they're trying to put this aside. And by the way,

00:36:48.260 it's been a week now since this happened. Uh, and this, the, the claim that we got from the media

00:36:54.260 right after the non-binary wrinkle came to light was that, well, this, they're just claiming this

00:37:01.280 now. And, and, uh, clearly this is still a right wing militant person who's just claiming non-binary

00:37:07.500 status to troll or to get out of the hate crime charge, which as I explained last week, doesn't

00:37:11.780 make any sense to begin with, but we know that that isn't true. What the media is saying to try to,

00:37:19.980 you know, dismiss this because if there was any evidence, like a week later, if there was any

00:37:27.500 evidence that this person was actually a right winger who was motivated because of things that

00:37:33.920 Tucker Carlson said, or who like followed me on Twitter or something, if that was true,

00:37:39.400 if there was even a shred of evidence of any of that, we wouldn't know it by now. It's been a week.

00:37:45.500 You notice how, as far as I know, we haven't even been told, we haven't,

00:37:47.880 we haven't even been told what the shooter himself is saying. He was captured alive after all.

00:37:56.800 We've been told none of that or very little of it.

00:37:58.700 As I said last week, if, if, if a mass shooting happens and it's actually a right wing person to

00:38:09.260 commit a mass shooting, we will know everything about that person in like two hours. We'll have

00:38:14.520 every detail of their life in two hours. And if, if it goes beyond two hours, three, four, five hours,

00:38:21.960 and we've heard almost nothing. And then it's two days and we've heard almost nothing. Well,

00:38:25.040 that tells you that, uh, whatever this person's, you know, whatever the details of this person's

00:38:30.020 life, it doesn't work for the media narrative. We know that. But the other reason that they had to,

00:38:35.960 uh, just move, move on from this story is that I think they realized they were completely

00:38:44.040 exploding their own gender ideology talking points. Everything that we've heard from CNN,

00:38:51.680 I mean, that, that really is going back to that video clip for a minute. That just is an amazing

00:38:55.280 video. I mean, how, how many times have we of course been told that you can't even, when a,

00:39:03.040 when a baby is born, uh, you can't even declare their sex male or female.

00:39:10.420 You can't declare it based on, you know, anatomy. You can't declare it based on DNA or chromosomes.

00:39:20.320 Even if you have access to all that information.

00:39:24.700 And yet this person could look at a mugshot of a, of the shooter and just based on that alone,

00:39:31.380 say, oh yeah, not even, not even that he's not a woman, that he's not non-binary.

00:39:34.620 Whatever that even means to begin with. All right. I also wanted to, to, to, uh, mention this. So

00:39:43.300 Kat Tenbarge is the, uh, speaking of groomers, Kat Tenbarge is the tech and culture reporter for NBC

00:39:49.220 news. And she tweeted this, I guess this was on Thanksgiving. This is what she was thinking

00:39:55.380 about on Thanksgiving. I was with my family, but she was tweeting this. Uh, she said, Tucker Carlson

00:39:59.860 Libs of TikTok, et cetera, create a stream of content blaming trans and queer people for child

00:40:05.540 grooming, but rarely or never feature actual victims of child grooming. If they did, they'd

00:40:11.640 have to reckon with the fact that many survivors are queer and trans themselves. Huh? That's 0.97

00:40:22.080 interesting, Kat. So if they, if we reckoned with action, with the actual grooming of children,

00:40:29.860 then we would, we would realize that many of the survivors of grooming are queer and trans

00:40:35.940 themselves. Do you understand what you've just admitted to? By the way, I don't disagree with

00:40:44.800 anything she said there. Um, aside from the, you know, the, the accusation she's making against

00:40:52.640 Tucker Carlson or Libs of TikTok, aside from that, but the gist of her point, I agree with.

00:40:56.680 I totally agree with it. In fact, this is like the unspeakable. You're not allowed to even say this

00:41:02.680 out loud, even though it's true. Um, you know, to, to identify the potential link between child abuse

00:41:13.600 and then kids who identify as some version of LGBT, this is a, this is a, this is a, a link you can see

00:41:21.980 if you look at the, at the data points, but you're not allowed to point it out, but Kat just did

00:41:26.820 because she doesn't realize what she just said.

00:41:33.120 Yes. Why are Kat, ask yourself this,

00:41:37.600 why is it that so many of the quote survivors of grooming are queer and trans?

00:41:44.840 Might that indicate that the queer and trans identities among children are a product of the 0.99

00:41:54.340 grooming? So you've got all the dots, you see all the dots now, now just connect them is all you

00:42:00.800 got to do. And then you'll see the full picture. Uh, one of the thing before we get to the comment

00:42:07.060 section because I could not neglect to gloat about this. Now you may, you may recall from my

00:42:15.360 appearance on Dr. Phil and I've, I mean, I've made this point many times, uh, or I've talked about,

00:42:21.040 Hey, if we're, if we're allowing people to have preferred pronouns and we're respecting their

00:42:26.820 preferred pronouns, then what about other grammatical constructs? I mean, what about, uh, what about a

00:42:33.060 preferred adjective? For example, as you know, my preferred adjective is handsome and brilliant.

00:42:40.520 And I said that partly as a joke on Dr. Phil, I don't know, six months ago, fast forward six months

00:42:46.640 and we have this on Tik TOK. Listen, I just had a parent ask me my preferred adjectives

00:42:54.440 because she wanted to comment on one of my photos, but she wanted to use words that I liked hearing

00:43:01.760 for myself. Uh, I got a lot of respect for the Babylon B because they, they, they have to stay 1.00

00:43:18.940 ahead of the curve on this. It's very difficult to do. And things move so quickly that something

00:43:23.940 moves from parody to reality in like the blink of an eye. And there it is. Now, now we are actually

00:43:30.940 talking about preferred adjectives because why not? It actually makes a lot of sense.

00:43:38.260 If, if I am required to affirm your self-perception, then why would that not extend to,

00:43:45.560 you know, adjectives as well? I mean, like, however I describe my, I see myself a certain way.

00:43:51.880 And if you are required to affirm, however, I see myself, then why would we not extend that

00:43:57.080 to, to, to adjectives as well? And that's what we are. Let's get to the comment section.

00:44:03.540 Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

00:44:11.340 Old schooled says, imagine the meltdown. If there was a purity and abstinence story hour at local

00:44:17.460 libraries. Well, old school, that is a, uh, I would, if I were to put, to make a hall of fame for

00:44:25.900 your, uh, comments in the comment section, yours would, yours would be in it. Cause that is a very,

00:44:29.640 very good point. Very good and simple point that I wish I had thought to make myself. Um,

00:44:35.960 yeah. Uh, imagine that. Imagine if it was like a, rather than having, um, a, a drag queen, a man 0.99

00:44:45.420 dress up as a woman, come and read to the kids. Yes. What if it was a, a purity and abstinence, 0.65

00:44:50.140 a purity and modesty, you know, story hour where it's all, it's very modestly dressed individual,

00:44:58.260 man or a woman reading books about modesty.

00:45:06.580 I think you've made the point. Um, the way of the hero says, I wouldn't want a stripper to read

00:45:11.660 books to kids just as much as I wouldn't want a drag queen to do such. This isn't specifically about 1.00

00:45:15.720 drag queens. This is about keeping the barrier intact between children and adult sexuality. 1.00

00:45:22.520 Uh, right. Exactly. This is, this is why, as I've always said, I mean, and I think the right way you

00:45:27.680 say stripper, I mean, and you look at some of the footage of these drag events, family-friendly

00:45:35.080 drag events. It is basically, you know, it is not even basically like there is actual stripping going

00:45:39.760 on. But, um, I think more often it's better compared to burlesque and we wouldn't want kids

00:45:48.640 to be exposed to that. The only problem with this argument is that I think more and more the left

00:45:53.320 is going to say, and they're saying now that like, well, why not? Sure. Let's, let's, let's bring kids

00:45:58.040 to the strip club too. Why, why not? I mean, it's just, it's just sexuality. It's not scary.

00:46:04.380 And if you object and you say, no, don't bring kids to the, to the strip club, you freaks.

00:46:11.180 They'll say, well, what are you afraid of strippers for? 0.99

00:46:14.960 So I think, I think that's going to be the response is that they're sort of like going to,

00:46:19.300 going to take us up on that. Um, all right. Matthew Grove Jones says,

00:46:26.320 I don't think Matt's that much older than me, but I look to him as a father figure. I think that's

00:46:31.360 the whole meaning of the sweet baby gang. Not sure. Only been into Walshy for a few years now.

00:46:37.140 I may have missed something. Well, if you've been listening for a few years, then you should know

00:46:45.520 not to commit two sins that you've committed here, Matthew. One is to speculate about the origins of

00:46:52.720 the sweet baby gang, which you should know we do not do. And the other is to call me Walshy.

00:46:56.920 So you, if it's possible, you are banned, you're banned from the show,

00:47:02.080 readmitted, and then banned again for both of those offenses.

00:47:10.320 Sabri says, cute to see how Matt lives under the impression that his SBG does not enjoy seeing him

00:47:15.500 suffer and therefore will help him out of his anime deal. Looking forward to seeing you watch

00:47:20.440 anime soon, Matt. I am greatly disappointed that, well, I'll read some of these other comments,

00:47:24.860 but I'm, I was looking over, I did say, please recommend to me an anime that's got two or three

00:47:32.940 minute episodes and like three or four episodes in a season. And if that doesn't exist, because I'm

00:47:38.960 not going to blame the SBG for the fact that that doesn't exist if it doesn't, but if it, but if it

00:47:43.280 doesn't exist, then I need someone to make that anime. Is that so much to ask and put it up on YouTube

00:47:48.680 and then I can watch that and fulfill the terms of my deal. But no one has done that. I checked.

00:47:55.960 You had the whole Thanksgiving break to make an anime and put it on YouTube to help me out here.

00:48:02.820 Deeply disappointed. Draconic Fang says, I recommend Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood.

00:48:09.220 There are 64 episodes, around 18 minutes per. Very well done and has some strong heart-clenching

00:48:14.720 moments. 64 episodes at 18 minutes an episode? Do the math on that. I can't off the top of my head.

00:48:22.700 That's a lot of minutes. I know that much. You are not understanding the assignment here. 64 episodes.

00:48:30.080 I have to live stream this. Don't you understand? That's what, like, I have to watch the whole thing

00:48:34.640 on a live stream. Are there any better recommendations? Daniel says, Matt, watching

00:48:43.660 anime, this will be good. I hope they choose the weebiest ones. The one people seem to walk in at

00:48:49.280 the most awkward moments for. God be with you, Matt. I don't even know the weebiest. I don't know what

00:48:55.860 that means exactly, but I don't want a weeby one, okay? That doesn't sound good.

00:48:59.360 Um, JG says, Walsh is a genius. He took a sarcastic statement about anime and set it to

00:49:07.720 stir up controversy, which sells, flipped it to sell an extra 100 books, and is going to monetize

00:49:12.240 watching anime since reaction videos are huge. I'm sure he's going to make a pretty penny off of

00:49:17.360 this. Bravo, Matt. I wish I could tell you that this is all some master plan on my part. I appreciate

00:49:21.700 that assumption. Um, but, uh, I, I appreciate your, your faith that this is all a 4D chess move,

00:49:29.080 but it's really not. And if it was, again, I would not, I would have flipped it for not a hundred books,

00:49:34.000 but a thousand, 10,000. People are so desperate to see me suffer through anime that I could have

00:49:40.760 demanded 10,000 books, and I think it would have happened. Um, Vigilant the Wolf says,

00:49:49.180 the most demonic anime of all is Hetalia, but the episodes are only five minutes long.

00:49:54.420 If you last through a season, I'll be extremely impressed.

00:49:58.920 Well, there's an interesting moral quandary. So you're saying, so this is a short one,

00:50:03.480 yet it's the most demonic.

00:50:07.040 So we know that all anime is demonic and causes demonic possession, but you're saying this is the

00:50:11.200 most demonic, but it's also very short.

00:50:12.640 So do I want to do that? Or do I want to, do I want to do a longer anime? That's a little bit

00:50:19.080 less demonic. I guess that's what we have to figure out. And I need your help. Sweet baby gang.

00:50:24.600 I still am imploring for your help. Let's get to the daily cancellation.

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00:51:15.780 This weekend I watched one of the biggest hits on Netflix right now, which is a documentary series

00:51:20.520 from a journalist named Graham Hancock. The show is called Ancient Apocalypse. And in the series,

00:51:25.740 just as he has throughout his career, Hancock argues that there was a lost global civilization that

00:51:30.260 existed on Earth some 12,000 years ago, but it was wiped out in a cataclysm that erased most traces

00:51:37.560 of this civilization. He claims that our ancestors had a memory of this cataclysm, the ancient apocalypse

00:51:44.220 in the title, which they recounted in the biblical story of the flood and in other ancient texts around

00:51:49.420 the world. The way he puts it, he says that we are a species with amnesia. We don't know the story of

00:51:55.520 our own past. And we accept what we've been told by mainstream science and academia, which insists

00:52:01.360 that there were no civilizations at all, in fact, certainly not advanced ones prior to about

00:52:06.840 4,000 BC. That's the mainstream accepted version of events. Hancock says that they're ignoring or

00:52:13.780 even potentially covering up evidence to the contrary. And what is the evidence? Well, much of it

00:52:19.860 centers around various ancient structures around the world that have turned out to be much older than

00:52:23.920 they were originally thought to be. Hancock points to, for example, 1,000-year-old pyramids that,

00:52:30.740 as it turns out, were built over top even older pyramids, which were built over older ones, like a

00:52:36.400 kind of Russian nesting doll sort of situation. The evidence indicates that our ancestors were,

00:52:42.620 in fact, building bigger and more complicated things earlier than previously assumed. And so Hancock is

00:52:48.820 pointing to some of this. Also, there's the similarity between these ancient structures. Like the

00:52:53.520 Egyptians weren't the only ones who built pyramids, obviously. Ancient people all over the world made

00:52:57.960 their own versions of pyramids. And they were usually built to correspond with astronomical

00:53:02.440 phenomena. Why did all these societies separated by oceans and millennia decide to build these structures?

00:53:10.120 And how did they build them? That's an interesting question and one that has never been

00:53:14.240 sufficiently answered. Graham Hancock's answer is that the survivors of a lost Ice Age civilization

00:53:19.920 went around the world, passing down the knowledge of how to build these pyramids, along with teaching

00:53:25.900 agriculture and architecture and art, etc. And that's how they figured out how to do it. Now,

00:53:31.300 why did these survivors do this? And how did they survive the apocalypse that wiped out their

00:53:35.680 civilization? And where were they stationed for the centuries it would have taken them to go around

00:53:40.820 the whole world teaching these techniques to thousands of different societies? And how were they

00:53:44.840 able to communicate with all these people speaking different languages? And why isn't there any actual

00:53:49.440 material evidence of this advanced civilization that supposedly existed 12,000 years ago?

00:53:54.680 Hancock says that it was wiped out in a cataclysm, but he also says that there were enough survivors

00:53:59.000 to support this global campaign to civilize the entire world, which means that there were a lot of

00:54:04.860 survivors. Why didn't they leave behind any direct evidence of their existence?

00:54:09.800 These questions and many more are not answered by Graham Hancock, which is why I don't personally buy

00:54:18.940 much of what he's selling. I am not persuaded. And yet, I very much enjoyed the series, just as I've

00:54:27.220 enjoyed listening to him explain his ideas during his several appearances on Joe Rogan's podcast. I've

00:54:32.180 read one of his books. I found it interesting. I think his theories are quite interesting and entertaining,

00:54:39.800 and also outlandish, and probably dead wrong. Despite what you've been told, it is possible to have

00:54:47.680 this opinion about someone or something. It is possible to believe that someone is wrong and yet

00:54:54.520 still find them fascinating. It is possible to disagree with someone's ideas and yet still believe

00:55:02.260 that the ideas are worth listening to. Say whatever else you want about Graham Hancock. He is, to use the

00:55:08.100 cliche, an outside-the-box thinker. And I can personally always appreciate those types of people.

00:55:13.560 We need more of those people in the world, not fewer. They make life more interesting. They make

00:55:17.980 conversations more interesting. And they get people talking about subjects that they would otherwise

00:55:22.920 ignore. I mean, a show about ancient archaeology is now the biggest hit on Netflix, which I think,

00:55:29.720 as someone who enjoys history, that's worth celebrating in its own right, even if you reject his

00:55:35.280 hypothesis completely. This is not a difficult needle to thread. Okay, it's not hard to say.

00:55:43.000 I disagree with your ideas, but I'm glad you've shared them. At least it shouldn't be hard.

00:55:51.440 Yet it's somehow beyond the capacity of the mainstream media, which has one word for ideas

00:55:56.900 that fall outside of the mainstream. Well, they have a few words, but one of the most common words is,

00:56:01.840 the word is not interesting, but rather dangerous. It's dangerous if it falls outside of the mainstream.

00:56:09.160 Hence, many headlines published over the past few days, like this one from The Guardian, says,

00:56:13.580 ancient apocalypse is the most dangerous show on Netflix. And then the subheader of that article

00:56:19.060 says this, a show with a truly preposterous theory is one of the streaming giant's biggest hits.

00:56:24.820 And it seems to exist solely for conspiracy theorists. Why has this been allowed? Wait,

00:56:32.740 why has it been allowed? Who is supposed to disallow it? Well, the writer never explains that.

00:56:38.980 He also never really explains what exactly makes a preposterous quote-unquote theory about ancient

00:56:43.020 prehistory dangerous. What is the danger precisely? So a bunch of people come to believe that an advanced

00:56:50.140 civilization existed during the last ice age, and then what? What catastrophe is supposed to follow

00:56:56.140 from that? Other articles have taken it a step further, claiming that the show is not only dangerous,

00:57:02.020 but racist as well. A headline from a different publication declares that there is a whole bunch

00:57:06.240 of, quote, white supremacist nonsense behind Netflix's ancient apocalypse. Yet Hancock never says

00:57:13.080 anything about race in the show or in his books, as far as I know. Even if you think that his

00:57:18.780 lost civilization theory is the dumbest thing you've ever heard in your life, what in the world 0.99

00:57:23.000 makes it racist? Well, that's never explained either. But it doesn't have to be. We already 0.99

00:57:28.000 know that this is the media's version of Tourette's. They just reflexively blurt out the word racist

00:57:32.900 when faced with anything they don't like. Everything they personally disapprove of is racist and

00:57:38.780 dangerous. As for the latter charge, the best attempt at an explanation comes from the Guardian

00:57:43.740 article I mentioned, which arrives at this conclusion at the end. It says,

00:57:46.620 That's the danger of a show like this. It whispers to the conspiracy theorists in all of us.

00:57:53.240 And Hancock is such a compelling host that he's bound to create a few more in his wake.

00:57:58.100 Believing that ultra-intelligent creatures helped to build the pyramids is one thing,

00:58:01.880 but where does it end? Believing that election fraud is real? Believing 9-11 was an inside job?

00:58:07.760 Worse? If you were feeling particularly mean-spirited, you could suggest that Netflix

00:58:11.980 knows this and has gone out of its way to court the conspiracy theorists.

00:58:17.660 Ah, so there it is. If you question the narrative from mainstream archaeologists,

00:58:23.900 the fear is that it might send you tumbling down a rabbit hole where you begin to think critically

00:58:28.440 and skeptically about a whole host of other topics as well, like election integrity.

00:58:33.040 This is indeed a dangerous possibility. Dangerous anyway, to the people in charge of formulating

00:58:39.680 and disseminating the official narrative. I mean, this is really the sin that Graham Hancock has

00:58:47.020 committed. He's pointing out holes in the official story. He's encouraging skepticism.

00:58:52.560 Now, the theories that he formulates may have many holes of their own. I think they do,

00:58:56.880 but that's not the issue as far as the narrative gatekeepers are concerned.

00:58:59.840 I mean, they don't care if something is wrong. They themselves are wrong all the time. Wrongness

00:59:04.880 is not a problem for them. The problem is when people notice how little they, the gatekeepers,

00:59:10.860 actually know. How fragile and tentative their own theories are. How unearned and unjustified is

00:59:19.760 their confidence. That's what makes a documentary series about ancient archaeology dangerous,

00:59:24.900 is that it might make you a little skeptical of the gatekeepers, which I guess is dangerous. Yeah,

00:59:31.940 but it's the right kind of dangerous. And that is why it's not Graham Hancock who's canceled today,

00:59:36.820 but the gatekeepers trying to shame and silence him. They are all canceled. That'll do it for this

00:59:42.980 portion of the show as we move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you

00:59:46.140 tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 28, 2022

Ep. 1069 - Leftists Push White Guilt On Thanksgiving

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